New pitch-count limits have been tough on high school baseball teams this season.

New pitch-count limits have been really tough on teams with two must-win district games, four-game weeks and Saturday doubleheaders.

That was the situation facing Lauderdale County rivals Northeast and Southeast Saturday night, when the visiting Trojans banged out a dozen hits and outlasted the Tigers 9-7.

“We swung it and I’m especially proud of the way we swung it after not playing well earlier today,” Northeast coach Josh Snider said of his squad, which had six extra-base hits Saturday night. “We had two big district wins this week but after losing earlier today it was great to come back and play well tonight.”

The win lifted the Trojans, who have their eyes set on the No. 2 spot in Region 5-4A play, to 12-9 overall. Southeast, which is battling for a postseason spot in the Region 5-3A race, dropped to 12-8.

A pair of seniors handled all the mound duty for Northeast. Dalton Rogers earned the victory after toeing the rubber for the first time all season, with Chase  Moore getting the save.

“This pitch count stuff is tough, especially on these four-game weeks with doubleheaders,” Snider said. I know it’s for the protection of the kids, but it’s still tough.

“We wanted to try to get Dalt out there tonight and get us to the fourth inning and that’s exactly what we did. I thought he threw well. When you consider he hadn’t thrown all year, he did very well. Then Chase came in there and did what he’s done for us all year. He settled in and was tough down the stretch.”

Rogers walked six but didn’t give up any earned runs. Moore struck out six and gave up just one run, retiring the last seven batters he faced.

Southeast scored three unearned runs in the first inning and was up 3-1 until Northeast erupted for seven runs in the top of the fourth.

Lane Gordon’s two-run triple and Luke Harper’s run-scoring double were big blows during the rally, which ended after Hunter Hobson’s two-out, two-run homer put the Trojans ahead 8-3.

The host Tigers roared back with three runs in the home half of the fourth, and it was a nip-tuck affair the rest of the way.

Will Temple was 3-for-4 with a double, a run and an RBI to pace Northeast, while Gordon and Brock Butler both had two hits. In addition to Gordon, Harper, Hobson and Temple,  NEL got extra-base hits from Rogers and Braxton Lee.

Zack Flaskamp had two hits and two RBIs and Dakota Boney was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs to lead Southeast. Trevor Shirley doubled and drove in three; Ryan Smith singled and scored a pair of runs; and Luke Sciple reached all four times and scored twice.

Northeast hosts Quitman and Southeast goes to Philadelphia Tuesday in district matchups.